jkeogh1413 wrote:Is this a typical step when installing on CYGWIN, or was configure supposed to handle it?

You have actually discovered a build system inconsistency. Poco comes with POCO_WIN32_UTF8 enabled by default because that's what most windows users need but it should not leak into non-windows build environments or be defined alongside with POCO_NO_WSTRING. It will be fixed in 1.4.4p1 and 1.5.0